If the goal is to kill every Palestinian, don’t they have faster and more efficient methods? Also, why are they leaving the West Bank alone? They’re Palestinians too, aren’t they?
Israel is not leaving the West Bank alone. The media has been focused on the Gaza strip because that is where most of the destruction is but Israel has operations in the West Bank[0].
You can't claim the moral high ground of just wanting to defeat Hamas if you use these faster more efficient methods. Israel is still trying to play the victim in the global narrative.
> If the goal is to kill every Palestinian, don’t they have faster and more efficient methods?
The goal is to eliminate the Palestinian identity (destroy the Palestinian people as a people, the definition of genocide) and displace the population from Gaza and the West Bank. But it is not the only goal; maintaining sufficient deniability/rationalizability that they can avoid active international intervention against themselves and retain certain sources of active international support (most notably from the US government) is also an important goal, and one that constrains how the first goal is pursued.
> Also, why are they leaving the West Bank alone?
They have never even pretended to leave the West Bank alone the way they pretended to do to Gaza during the for-show disengagement. And violent repression in the West Bank has also been escalated under the cover of the international media being focussed almost exclusively on the mass destruction in Gaza, with far less attention.
